The Mark Foley boy-sex scandal keeps taking more disturbing twists and turns. My friend John over at Americablog has all the creepy angles covered (he even spoke about it on CNN this afternoon). It seems the GOP leadership -- all the way up to House Speak Dennis Hastert -- were well-aware of Foley's lurid behavior, yet they all opted to treat it as a political issue rather than the potentially criminal matter that it was. Click here for all the details.
Saturday, September 30, 2006
Friday, September 29, 2006
Hypocrisy in Da House
Just yesterday Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) and his people were saying there was nothing untoward about a number of e-mails he'd sent to a 16-year-old former Capitol Hill page. Today Foley 52, who had been considered a shoo-in for re-election until the e-mails surfaced in recent days, abruptly resigned from office.
I'd never heard of Foley before this story broke but it didn't take long for me to dig up some oh-so-predictable facts about the confirmed REPUBLICAN bachelor.
In late 2000, Foley played a large role in aiding George W. Bush during the presidential election recount controversy in Florida. When stories later surfaced that Foley was gay or bisexual, he held a press conference to denounce the "revolting" rumors. Foley is chairman of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children and is one of the foremost critics in the House of child pornography. In 2002 he introduced a bill to outlaw Web sites featuring sexually suggestive images of preteen children, saying that "these Web sites are nothing more than a fix for pedophiles."
Some interesting information about a man who asked this high-school boy for a "pic" of himself, engaged in a series of sexually explicit instant messages with current and former teenage male pages (in one message, ABC said, Foley wrote to one page: "Do I make you a little horny?") (UM, NO.) and commented to the boy that his friends on his MySpace page sure looked like they were "in great shape." Sure, Foley is 100 percent responsible for his actions (and I fear this is just the tip of the iceberg). But again, this is one of the sick byproducts of growing up in a society that so often forces people to deny who they really are. Only bad things can come of it.
Foley Submits Resignation to Congress (AP)
Challenger Seeks Probe of Foley's E-mails to Boy, 16 (WP)
Morning Glory: Zen Gesner
I'd never even heard of actor Zen Gesner, but one look at his profile on HunkyMaleCelebrities.com and I was smitten. It's a good thing I've never been a photo editor before because I can never narrow it down to just two or three photos. With a mug like Zen's I'm guessing you don't really mind this shortcoming of mine though ...
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Thursday, September 28, 2006
Pumped and Ready
The gym Equinox is busy celebrating its 15th anniversary today filling the streets with people giving out free copies of the NY Post with their insignia and membership offers all over them. I already belong to another gym, but the photos are reason enough to join in the festivities.
Sporting Goods: Mystery Slugger
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Fluff & Fold
Remember My Beautiful Laundrette from the other day? Well, I found out from Jon over at Universal Gear that his name is Sean and he's a 20-year-old college student (and frat boy) over at Rutgers University. Jon also pointed me to a Q&A with our handsome laundry boy and to these additional photos from the laundromat. Fluff away ...
(Photographs by Scott Henrichsen)
Love and Love
As you probably heard, the U.S. got its ass handed to it by Russia in the semifinals of the Davis Cup last weekend. This Marat Safin-Andy Roddick photo op was about the only good thing to come out of the whole thing (insert meat-in-that-sandwich joke here). (AP)
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Sporting Goods: Max Lerner and Alex Binder
I caught my first episode of MTV's latest high school reality offering "Two-a-Days" last night. The Times' Virginia Heffernan accurately describes the show's main stars -- Max Lerner and Alex Binder -- as "two achingly beautiful white guys who bring to mind James Dean and Warren Beatty plus 100 pounds of muscle; if producers are hoping for some 'Splendor in the Grass' melodrama, these two are the guys to bet on." (She also laments the lack of screen time for Hoover football teammate Repete, a name from which I'm still recovering from laughing.)
I guess this officially makes me a "dirty old man" now, but these two guys are really just too much, and surely there's nothing wrong with looking. And besides, isn't the age of consent in Alabama around 11 anyway?
UPDATE: Where are they now?
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Class of '85
It's no secret that I'm hopelessly stuck in the '80s, so I know exactly who Shakespears Sister is. And I know who Jules Shear is. But after flipping through Rolling Stone last night somehow I feel like I should know who Scissor Sisters and Jake Shears are. Right?
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
My Beautiful Launderette
So I'm minding my own business walking to the subway to go to work today when I see this in the window of a clothing store on Eighth Avenue. There goes my concentration for the day ...
(Photo by Scott Henrichsen)
(Photo by Scott Henrichsen)
UPDATE: Fluff & Fold
Previously: My Beautiful Launderette: Down Under
Morning Glory: Eric Dane
"Westside Club, anyone?"
I had never even heard of Eric Dane until his Bathhouse Betty photos with Patrick Dempsey on "Grey's Anatomy" began circulating yesterday in the blogsphere, but now I just can't get enough. He's like the love child brother of George Eads and Chris O'Donnell, only sexier than both. And he's married to Dylan McKay's gorgeous dead wife Rebecca Gayheart, who is best known for her real-life role in the vehicular-homicide of a 9-year-old boy. Way to go, Eric! Apparently I need to watch more network TV ...
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Wildcats Gone Wild
The University of Arizona's first fraternity geared toward gay men has received its national charter. Delta Lambda Phi, which completed rush this month, is also open to men who are on the road to Gayville bisexual. "We were one of the fastest charters in history because we were dedicated to this," said Christopher Newman, 23, a senior education major and founding member. I'm predicting the most wonderfully decorated house on frat row and late-night games of chandeliers played with little glasses of Absolut and soda. (AP)
Monday, September 25, 2006
Plummer vs. Brady
Once again, Jake Plummer's on top of Tom Brady.
In the ultimate NFL Battle of the Hot Quarterbacks, my man Jake Plummer and his Denver Broncos were too much for Tom Brady and the New England Patriots. This is about the only matchup I can sit through from beginning to end -- and boy was it was pleasure to watch. (AP)
In the ultimate NFL Battle of the Hot Quarterbacks, my man Jake Plummer and his Denver Broncos were too much for Tom Brady and the New England Patriots. This is about the only matchup I can sit through from beginning to end -- and boy was it was pleasure to watch. (AP)
My Friend Flickr
I'm going to be getting a very late start blogging today, if at all. You can thank my friend Flickr (it's so addictive): I was scanning photos until 4 a.m., which included rescanning most of them after my computer crashed halfway through it all. I gotta hit the sack for now. Since there's not a lot of new stuff posted, if you're at all interested here are the four new sets I created last night: